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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few mgorny/ projects for upstream-grabs
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:47:16
Message-Id: 20150615214705.23316.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] A few mgorny/ projects for upstream-grabs by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > dev-util/atomic-install
3 >
4 > A nice one -- tool to quasi-atomically install files from $D to live
5 > system. The idea is to replace live files as fast as possible,
6 > and quickly revert that if it fails in the middle.
7
8 I like the idea, but I would personally like to see it expanded to
9 something eselect-like which leaves "stage" files in place and allows
10 to quickly swap between different instances, rather than only support
11 one-shot installation.
12
13
14 //Peter